The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that the Brazilian rider Vinicius Rangel Costa has been sanctioned with a 20-month period of ineligibility following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (whereabouts failures by a rider) due to three whereabouts failures in a 12-month period.
In accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) and the UCI Anti-Doping Rules (UCI ADR), the period of ineligibility started on 27 August 2025 and is effective until 26 April 2027.
The case has been resolved by way of an acceptance of consequences as provided for by the Code and the UCI ADR.
The UCI will not comment any further.
The UCI delegated its anti-doping programme to the International Testing Agency (ITA) in January 2021, whilst retaining results management and the prosecution of anti-doping rules violations. Since then, cycling’s clean sport efforts have been led by the ITA Cycling Unit, which is dedicated specifically to all disciplines of cycling. The UCI and the ITA are bound by a service agreement which guarantees that the ITA operates in an independent manner.